Slide buckle



J. H. DOMKEE July 5, 1932.

SLIDE BUCKLE Filed Oct. 21, 1931 Jlfil-JN l-LDEIMKEE Patented July 5, 1932 UNITED STATES mm,iQFmE JOHN H. DOMKEE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY MIANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT SLIDE BUCKLE Application filed October 21, 1931. Serial No. 570,083.

This invention relates to slide buckles used for adjusting the length of looped straps, webbing and the like, without penetrating the material, the invent-ion being especially adapted to that class of slide buckles formed out of sheet-metal.

The objects of the invention are to provide a reversible slide buckle; to provide a slide buckle having an intermediate bar 1 structure provided with bent right-angled portions extending therefrom in opposite directions along planes perpendicular to the plane of the buckle; and to provide such rightangled portions of an intermediate bar with angular formations extending in opposite directions in said perpendicular planes. With these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular 2 form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawing, but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

The character of the inventiommay be identified by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is an upwright elevation of the device in perspective; the Figure 2 is an enlarged cross-section on the dotted line 22 of the previous figure; the Figure 3 is an upright elevation of a simplified form of the same device; and the Figure 4 is a crosssection on the line 4-4 of the next previous figure.

The invention is an improvement on the device disclosed by the Patent Number 1,810,647 issued to your petitioner June 16, 1931, on a wire slide buckle of which the intermediate bar structures are provided with angular formations projecting in opposite directions in planes perpendicular to the plane of the buckle. the improved device, about to be described, being formed out of sheet-met al.

Referring more particularly to the draw ing, the slide buckle is stamped out of sheetmetal in such manner as to provide the upper. lower and side bar portions 1, 2, 3, and 4,

respectively, and an integral bar portion 5 intermediate of, and parallel with, the upper and lower bar portions 1 and 2, the intermediate bar portion 5 longitudinally including integral marginal strips 6 and 7 cut away from the side bar portions 3 and 4, respectively, and each strip 6 and 7 bent at right angles to the intermediate bar portion 5 but in opposite directions to extend therefrom along plan es perpendicular to the slide buckle plane. While the cutmetal edges of either of the strips 6 or 7, as illustrated by the F igures 3 and 4, are well adapted to provide bights for engagement with a strap (not illustrated) threaded into the buckle in the usual manner, yetit is preferred that the edge of each marginal strip 6 and 7 be cut to provide the spaced angular projections 8 and 9 extending in opposite directions out of the buckle plane along planes perpendicular thereto, as illustrated by the Figures 1 t and 2, these projections, like those disclosed in the patent above referred to, providing positive bights for engagement with any strap threaded into the buckle.

I claim 1. A slide buckle comprising a metal frame including upper, lower and side bar portions in a common plane, and an intermediate bar in said plane and having marginal portions bent at right angles thereto to provide cutmetal edged portions projecting in opposite directions out of said plane;

2. A slide buckle comprising a metal frame including upper, lower and side bar portions in a common plane, and an intermediate bar in said plane and having marginal portions bent at right angles thereto, the edges of said bent portions being cut away to form angular projections extending in opposite directions out of said plane;

8. A slide buckle comprising a metal frame stamped out of sheet-metal and providing upper, lower and side bar portions in a common plane, and an intermediate bar portion integral With, and in the plane of, the frame and having marginal portions cut away from said side bar portions and bent at right angles to said intermediate bar portion, the edges of the bent portions being formed to provide angular projections extending in opposite directions out of said plane.

JOHN H. DOMKEE. 

